2) Offer support, we need a person to act as "Minister of Finance" to gather sponsorships and sell advertising to vegan companies. The person to do this does not need to have any experience, just enthusiasm. Along with this we need suggestions of companies we can approach for donations, free products and to buy advertising. Even better if people can write sample letters that we can send out to these companies.

3) Make veganfitness.net work, encourage meaningful threads and start a training log. If you can't see any posts to reply to, click the "View unanswered posts" link in the top left and reply to some new threads.

Would it be possible to setup a monthly payment? Doesn't need so many people donating a quite small amount monthly to cover the hosting cost, and you won't need to remind people to donate money from time to time.

[quote="fredrikw"]Would it be possible to setup a monthly payment? Doesn't need so many people donating a quite small amount monthly to cover the hosting cost, and you won't need to remind people to donate money from time to time.

seconded. 10 of us donating 5 dollars a month will cover it till alternative funding is found.

JS - They think it will open the door to folk like LordMuppet campaigning for a threeway?

[quote="Lordmuppet"][quote="fredrikw"]Would it be possible to setup a monthly payment? Doesn't need so many people donating a quite small amount monthly to cover the hosting cost, and you won't need to remind people to donate money from time to time.

seconded. 10 of us donating 5 dollars a month will cover it till alternative funding is found.

I think I can create a button for that, but need to hard code the amount (I think). Is $5 a month a fair amount?

[quote="baldy"][quote="Lordmuppet"][quote="fredrikw"]Would it be possible to setup a monthly payment? Doesn't need so many people donating a quite small amount monthly to cover the hosting cost, and you won't need to remind people to donate money from time to time.

seconded. 10 of us donating 5 dollars a month will cover it till alternative funding is found.

I think I can create a button for that, but need to hard code the amount (I think). Is $5 a month a fair amount?

Well for the UK I think $5 it is fine given the exchange rate. For the US, maybe also give an option to give $2.5 a month too?

JS - They think it will open the door to folk like LordMuppet campaigning for a threeway?

[quote="baldy"] 2) Offer support, we need a person to act as "Minister of Finance" to gather sponsorships and sell advertising to vegan companies. The person to do this does not need to have any experience, just enthusiasm. Along with this we need suggestions of companies we can approach for donations, free products and to buy advertising. Even better if people can write sample letters that we can send out to these companies.

I may be interested in doing this. I have no experience but I can write nicely and I own a suit!

Please add me to the skype stuff I'll message you my username on that

suggestions so far

suggestions of companies: easiest way to do this is by thread.

stats if we are going to sell advertising we would need to be able to provide stats on how many hits the site gets, how long people tend to stay for etc etc. Do we have this? If not I think it is quite easy to get though not sure if it is free.

vegan companies or vegan products It would be prudent to decide ahead of time if we only want to deal with vegan companies or if it is sufficient that the product advertised is vegan. I worry that if we rule out companies based on their parent company the pool left will be pretty small. Again a thread/poll on this might be useful.

member donations It might be an idea to give members something back in exchange for the (monthly?) donations. this does not have to cost us anything! because recognition is free. For example, some theatres put the names on donors on the back of seats.

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JS - They think it will open the door to folk like LordMuppet campaigning for a threeway?

[quote="Lordmuppet"][quote="baldy"] 2) Offer support, we need a person to act as "Minister of Finance" to gather sponsorships and sell advertising to vegan companies. The person to do this does not need to have any experience, just enthusiasm. Along with this we need suggestions of companies we can approach for donations, free products and to buy advertising. Even better if people can write sample letters that we can send out to these companies.

[quote="baldy"][quote="Lordmuppet"][quote="baldy"] 2) Offer support, we need a person to act as "Minister of Finance" to gather sponsorships and sell advertising to vegan companies. The person to do this does not need to have any experience, just enthusiasm. Along with this we need suggestions of companies we can approach for donations, free products and to buy advertising. Even better if people can write sample letters that we can send out to these companies.

I am interested in doing this.

Great, you are hired.

nice edit I was just thinking putting may was rather lilly livered!

nervous but excited!

hoping I can keep the time commitment reasonable by crowd sourcing certain aspects (like suggestions of companies).

The experience will be very good for the resume too!

JS - They think it will open the door to folk like LordMuppet campaigning for a threeway?

[quote="Lordmuppet"][quote="baldy"][quote="Lordmuppet"]seconded. 10 of us donating 5 dollars a month will cover it till alternative funding is found.

I think I can create a button for that, but need to hard code the amount (I think). Is $5 a month a fair amount?

Well for the UK I think $5 it is fine given the exchange rate. For the US, maybe also give an option to give $2.5 a month too?

I'd be down for donating.

I just think that IF we do this, it shouldn't be reflected in any special perks or recognition on the board. This was done at another board I used to frequent, I think that the policy of differentiating based on donation didn't do the place any favors on the tension that built up.

The other stuff might take time, but the donating could be done easily, right? Set up a paypal thing?

"The worker has the right to leave his boss, but can she do it? And if she does quit him, is it in order to lead a free life; where she will have no master but herself? No, she leaves to sell herself to another employer. She's driven by the same hunger. Thus the worker's liberty is only a theoretical freedom, lacking any means of realization; an utter falsehood."-Bakunin

"The worker has the right to leave his boss, but can she do it? And if she does quit him, is it in order to lead a free life; where she will have no master but herself? No, she leaves to sell herself to another employer. She's driven by the same hunger. Thus the worker's liberty is only a theoretical freedom, lacking any means of realization; an utter falsehood."-Bakunin